Archive for the ‘Aid / Disasters’ Category
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The devastation and suffering in Bangladesh caused by Cyclone SIDR are similar to the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, but three months on, leading older people's charities are warning that funds for rehabilitation for survivors of this second Asian disaster are insufficient for the scale of the calamity.
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
A recent article in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine finds that the 1991 to 1995 Homeland War in Croatia led to an increase in weapon-related deaths of children during and five years after the end of the war.
The study, performed by Aida Mujkic of the University of Iowa ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The New York Times on Wednesday examined issues surrounding the Product RED campaign, which benefits the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Product RED -- which was created by musician and HIV/AIDS advocate Bono and Bobby Shriver -- and its partners to date have given more than $59 ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and a Somali partner have started giving daily meals to tens of thousands of desperately hungry people in the capital Mogadishu -- the agency's first 'wet feeding' in ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Wealthy Commonwealth nations such as the UK should help poorer member states improve vital infrastructure facilities as one of the best ways to lift them out of poverty, a new University of Nottingham report says.
The report, 'Trading on Commonwealth Ties', produced by the Globalisation and Economic Policy Centre (GEP), which ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
A week after devastating Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, UNICEF is concerned that hundreds of thousands of children across the affected areas remain vulnerable to the threat of disease and malnutrition unless urgently needed humanitarian relief reaches them in time.
"The cyclone has predisposed thousands of children and women to the increased ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Prompted by the emergency in the Mexican state of Tabasco after the heavy floods over the past few days, Bayer has decided to help flood victims by donating medicines and insecticides.
"The situation in Mexico is quite dramatic, so we want to help alleviate the distress of the people and in ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The American Red Cross is reaching across the border to provide $50,000 to the Mexican Red Cross to assist their emergency response to flooding that has affected more than 800,000 people. Unusually heavy rains caused rivers to overflow their banks in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco which was already ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the Thai government to halt all forced repatriation proceedings against the 7,500 ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos who are currently confined to a camp in northern Thailand's Petchabun province. The refugees, who claim to have fled violence ...
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